les drinks de gens raffinés,

"高雅人士的'饮料‘"
the drink of people who are refined.

文雅人喝的饮料
Now, this had already started to happen in the 1890s with certain

如今这在十九世纪九十年代的某些术语
terms, as I suggested when I was talking about émile Henry,

当我开始谈论艾米丽·亨利
that began to-- the long drink,

比如大杯饮料
for example--that began to infiltrate the French language.

就已经开始融入到法语之中
The hotdog became the chien chaud,

在各种指令下达的时期
in these times of these various commands.

热狗就变成了"很热的狗"[法语]
But basically with globalization

但基本上随着全球化
and with the American cultural dominance,

和美国文化的统治性地位
these attempts are basically just putting small fingers in very large dykes.

这些尝试不过是蚍蜉撼树
Why did it matter so much, all of this?

为什么这些如此重要